Measuring and mold-filling box.



F. E. KLING. MEASURING AND MOLD FILLING BOX. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1910.

1,009,153, Patented Nov. .21, 1911.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

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FREDERICK E. KLING, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

MEASURING AND MOLD-FILLING- BOX.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. KLING, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Youngstown, county of Mahoning, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring and Mold-Filling Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined measuring and mold-filling box, and it has for its primary object to provide a receptacle in which the material or materials employed in the manufacture of brick and the like may be accurately measured, and from which said material may be discharged directly into the mold employed for forming the brick.

A further object is to provide a device of the character mentioned which is extremely simple in construction and in its mode of operation, and which effects a uniform distribution ofthe material throughout the mold which it supplies.

Further objects of the invention will hereinafter be made apparent.

The invention consists in the particular construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will hereinafter be fully de scribed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of the invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a cross section of the same, showing it mounted upon a base, as when being filled; Fig. 4 is a similar section, showing the invention mounted upon a brick-mold in mold-filling position; and Figs. 5 to 16, inclusive, are cross-sectional views of modified forms of the invention.

Referring to said drawings, in which like reference characters distinguish like parts throughout the several views1 indicates the sides and 2 the ends of a rectangular box-like receptacle. Attached to the lower edge of each of the sides 1 by means of suitable hinges 3 is a bottom section 1, said bottom sections, when upraised in substantially horizontal positions, coinciding at their inner or adjacent edges to constitute a continuous or closed bottom for the receptacle. Legs 5 are provided on the sides 1 whereby the receptacle is supported in an upright position.

Pivotally connected to each end of each 4 bottom-section 4 is one end of a link 6 whose Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 24, 1910.

Patented Nov. 21, 1911.

Serial No. 583,583.

opposite end is similarly connected to a handle-member 7 adjacent links having pivotal connection with the opposite ends of a handle-member 7.

The box is mounted upon a suitable support, as 8, when being filled with material, said support serving as a rest for the closed bottom sections andsupporting the box in a position with its legs 5 elevated above the fioor or ground level, as shown in Fig. 3. When filled to the proper depth, the box is transferred to a position over a brick-mold 9, as shown in Fig. 4:, leg-rests 10 being preferably provided on the sides of said mold. In transferring the filled receptacle to the mold, the handle-members 7 are grasped and the receptacle lifted thereby, thus maintaining the bottom-sections 4: in complemental relation during the transferral. Immediately upon the receptacle being mounted upon the mold and the handle-members being released, the said bottom sections swing outward by gravitation, allowing the material to deposit within the mold. Lifting of the handles, as when transferring the receptacle from the mold back to the support 8, automatically eifects the closing of the bot tom-sections into complemental relation, which relation is maintained when the receptacle is replaced upon said support.

As is obvious, the bottom sections may either be mounted to swing from the sides 1, as shown in Figs. 1 to 6 and 14 to 16, in elusive, in which case they lie suspended in substantial vertical alinement with the sides 1 when open, as shown in Fig. 1, or they may be pivoted or hinged at a substan' tially central pointthat is, at adjacent edges, as shown in Figs. 7 to 13, inclusive, in which case they lie adjacent to each other, or close together, when open.

The form of the receptacle in cross-section may be varied to any extent desired, as shown in Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, 11 to 13, inclusive, and Fig. 16, and said receptacle may contain either one or two compartments, the latter number being shown in Figs. 9 to 16, inclusive, a longitudinally-extending dividing-wall or partition 11 separating said compartments, which latter may vary in size or form, as shown in the lastmentioned figures. Two compartments are preferably employed in the receptacle when two different materials or mixtures are to be measured for charging the mold.

The receptacle may be, and is preferably,

constructed of a size for containing precisely'the proper quantity of material for filling the mold; thus, a uniform quantity may at all times be supplied to the mold, resulting in the production of bricks of uniform size and density.

The bottom dimensions of the receptacle are preferably the same as those of the mold, in which case the material gravitates directly therefrom into said mold and is, consequently, uniformly distributed throughout the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A measuring and mold filling receptacle, comprising a box having complemental pivoted bottom-sections, substantially vertical links having their lower ends pivoted to said sections at each end of the latter, and a handle member disposed horizontally between said links and having its opposite ends connected to and supported by the upper ends of said links.

2. A measuring and filling device for molds and the like, comprising a box divided longitudinally into two compartments and having complemental pivoted bottom-sections, one for each compartment, a link pivoted to each section at each end thereof, and a horizontally disposed handle-member having pivotal connection at its opposite ends with the links at the same end and supported by the latter.

3. A measuring and filling device for molds and the like, comprising a box having supporting legs, complemental hinged sections constituting the bottom of said box, a link pivoted to each section at each end thereof, a horizontally disposed handlemember interposed between the adjacent ends of the links at the same end, said member being pivotally connected to and supported by said links, said links and said member constituting lifting means for said box whereby said sections are maintained in complemental closed relation while supported thereby and whereby said sections are permitted to gravitate from such relation when the supporting power applied to -sa1d means 1s released, said means being adapted to automatically effect the return of said sections to complemental relation upon the application of box-supporting power to the horizontal handle-member thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses. FREDERICK E. KLING. Witnesses:

GLENN TURRELL, R0121. O. KIELING.

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